Term ends Sep 17, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 19, 2038
Held by Marvell International Ltd.
Filed Dec 19, 2018 as application 16/226,564 · Granted Feb 22, 2022
Base term plus 638 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2018
2040
Clock starts
Dec 19, 2018
Dec 19, 2018
Term ends
Sep 17, 2040
Sep 17, 2040
Granted
Feb 22, 2022
Feb 22, 2022
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
638
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
17
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 638 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 19, 2018, when this application, 16/226,564, was filed | Dec 19, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +638 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 17, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 17, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,086,633 | In force Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
| US 10,896,045 | In force Jan 2039 | Jan 2039 |
| US 11,029,963 | In force Feb 2039 | Feb 2039 |
| US 12,112,174 | In force Sep 2041 | Sep 2041 |
| US 11,256,517 | this patent Sep 2040 | Sep 2040 |
| US 10,997,510 | In force May 2039 | May 2039 |
| US 10,929,760 | In force Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
| US 10,891,136 | In force Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
8 of 17 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 2020 Reel 54643, frame 733 | Sodani, Avinash; Hanebutte, Ulf R.; Durakovic, Senad; Ghasemi, Hamid Reza; Chen, Chis-hsin | Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 15, 2020 Reel 54643, frame 741 | Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. | Marvell International Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 18, 2021 Reel 55334, frame 579 | Cavium International | Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 18, 2021 Reel 55334, frame 589 | Marvell International Ltd. | Cavium International | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 18, 2021 Reel 55321, frame 367 | Marvell International Ltd. | Cavium, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 18, 2021 Reel 55321, frame 517 | Cavium, LLC | Marvell International Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2040
Term ends Sep 17, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 638 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
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